Giorgio Locatelli

But my uncle was from this sort of pastry.

It was a brother, one of the brothers from this really great pastry in Gallarate, which is this sort of like place between us and Milan, you know.

And so for us, Tuesday, when the restaurant was closed, was the day that everybody got together.

Yeah.

So on Tuesday, we wouldn't get the bus to come home because we'd arrive too late.

So either my dad or somebody would come and pick us up from school.

So we would be at one o'clock, bam, on the dot, we would be home.

And they would be always, you know, both my granddad, both my grandmother, which they all leave until they were under hundreds, all of them.

Wow.

Crikey, what did they eat?

Very little, apparently, when they were young.

I think that's why you live long.

That's right.

Eat less.

And also sometimes the...

uncle from the pastry shop will join us so it will always be a big big table and you know obviously in the winter there will be always this this you know northern italian food is gives its best during the winter with the polenta the rabbits my granddad used to raise rabbits so we used to kill them and skin them and just did you have to do that

I helped him, yeah.

I think this is a very important thing because I guess as a kid, if you see doing that,

You grow up with the kind of respect of the meat that you eat.

I think then the people that buys meat in packets in the supermarket, they feel such a distance and not responsible for it.